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|Definition=αὐθέκαστον,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[one who calls things by their right names]], [[one who calls a spade a spade]], [[down-right]], [[blunt]], Arist.EN1127a23, cf. Cleanth.Stoic.1.127; οὐκ ἔστ' [[ἀλώπηξ]] ἡ μὲν [[εἴρων]] τῇ φύσει ἡ δ' αὐθέκαστος = the [[nature]] of [[fox]]es is not for one to be [[treacherous]] and the other [[straightforward]] Philem.89.7, cf. Posidipp.40; in later Prose, [[λόγος]] Phld.Piet.102 (Comp.), cf. Ph.2.51, Plu.Cat.Ma.6. Adv. [[αὐθεκάστως]] = [[bluntly]], Phld.Sign.32.<br><span class="bld">2</span> of style, [[inartificial]], [[plain]], D.H.Comp.22.<br><span class="bld">3</span> in bad sense, [[self-willed]] ([[αὐτάρεσκος]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]; = [[ἀπαρέγκλιτος]], Suid.), αὐθέκαστος τὸν τρόπον, αὐθέκαστος τῷ τρόπῳ, Men.843, Sam.205, cf. Luc.Phal.1.2, Plu.2.11e; οὐ γὰρ [[αὐθάδης]] οὐδ' [[ἐπαχθής|ἐπαχθὴς]] ὁ [[χρηστός]], οὐδὲ αὐθέκαστος ὁ [[σώφρων]] [[ἀνήρ]] = the [[man]] of [[value]] is not [[arrogant]] or [[insufferable]], and the [[wise]] man is not [[smug]], ib. 823a, cf. Phld.Vit.p.30J.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[self-controlled]], [[self-sufficient]], ζῷον οὐ [[μονήρης|μονῆρες]] καὶ αὐθέκαστον ἀλλὰ [[κοινωνικός|κοινωνικὸν]] καὶ [[πολιτικός|πολιτικόν]] = an [[animal]] which is not [[solitary]] and [[self-sufficient]], but [[social]] and [[political]], Them.Or.34p.446D. Adv. [[αὐθεκάστως]] = [[rigidly]], [[severely]] Plu.Lys.21.